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I'd recommend adjusting your lifestyle where you don't even have to ask which one you should pick. Max them both. If you're at least GS-7, and don't live in a high cost area, you can pull it off. ...

"Divide $17,000 by 27 and you get $629.62. Multiply that by 26 and you get $16,370. That's pretty close to what the limit has been up to now, and you'll be guaranteed to get full matching."


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Does anyone know if there are 26 or 27 pay periods in FY 2012 for the Federal Government? I'm seeing one guide that appears to indicate 27 periods. For those maxing the TSP, you can end up losing...

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What I find insulting about the whole thing (and the strict contrarian mindset) is pretty much captured in today's forum write-up. The administrator asks us what we think... is this a bear or bull...

There is no substantial downside risk to either the F or G fund held over the long term. A decent argument could be made that there is no "substantial" risk even short term with investment grade...

Few things are more risky than market timing. That's a market timing statement. A buy and hold gives a rat's ass about what the current interest rates are or their direction. If I knew interest...

When you come to understand that point (percentage actually) higher is representated in real terms exponentially (when compounded over time), not linearly, then you realize "one point" is a lot.
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As politely as i can state it, this is just not correct, and I've already addressed why. You're making a converse statement with no explanation and, to me, that says everything.

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And you obviously are into personal attacks on messageboards. As in milkman's case, I simply delivered an eye for an eye.



I'm open to learning something new at any given time. If any...

The thinking goes if there are more bulls than bears, then that is supposedly a "bearish" indicator, meaning you should consider selling. If there are more bears than bulls, then that is supposedly...

We're going to make progress, i'm determined! You cannot have a seller without a buyer. If you want to sell a share and know one's willing to buy it, then guess what? You don't sell it. In...

I have stated before that I do think there should be some accountability for encouraging market timing when the majority of experts have equated it to gambling. I suspect the staff at tsp.gov...

My main point in all of this, is because i cringe everytime i hear about how many people are "in the market". And I have to cringe a lot, reading the main here.

For all practical purposes, there...

My mindreading skills are admittingly poor so i'll do my best at try to deduce which of the many responses you were referring to.

If Milkman sold shares of a fund, its possible the fund manager...

Milkman, i consider every other possible alternative before i will go with returning a personal attack. But in your case, you have posted nothing but rude comments every single time I post here. ...

I have a neat idea; why doesn't someone discuss the topic I brought up instead of engaging in personal attacks. Should i just assume everything i said was correct, since no one has an actual...

Oh its definitely true you moron. You weren't worth the response; its was actually more for the benefit of others.

Milkman thinks when he sells shares of a stock, no one buys them. Does this guy...

When you sell the shares in your mutual fund, someone else buys the stocks that composed those shares of those mutual funds from you.

Are there any other questions? I'll even answer the rude...

I want to bring up a few things from today's discussion. Tom said:



Tom, for every buyer there is a seller. When you sell a stock at "market price", you aren't selling it back to the...

There's absolutely no logic to this statement. If one shouldn't be in stocks today, it should make no difference what one has invested in yesterday. The converse is true too.

This is the same...

I'd probably go 20%I, 10%C, 10%S, 50%F, and 10%G, if all i had to use was TSP.

>Going much lower on stock holdings will primarly just hurt your return more, but wont really lower risk that...

Good advise for an example of many things to not do, but its certainly not the biggest lie out there. Its the first ive heard of it, and i don't know anyone who just bought 2 or 3 large cap stocks...

I owe this website so much in increasing my comfort as to taking an asset allocation/diversification approach. Tom who hosts the main page easily has 3 times the market knowledge that I do, and...

Totally random guessing would have "some" beating the market.

Half of "mangers" being the market one year, a fouth of them beating it two years straight, and an eighth of the beating it 3 years...